Leading Economic Indicators Rise for Tenth Straight Month
The to April rise of 1.1 percent in the Index of Leading Economic Indicators signals sustained recovery. Officials, including Baldrige and Speakes, cite broad gains across nine of eleven indicators led by longer workweeks and orders, with unemployment claims down and housing permits up.
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Washington
Reagan
Williamsburg
White House
Larry Speakes
Commerce
Malcolm Baldrige
Allen Gutheim
Wharton Econometrics
Philadelphia
Jerzy Jasinowski
National Association of Manufacturers
Basset Hounds Attend Texas Park Party For Four Celebrities
The event in Austin honors four celebrity basset hounds from the University of Texas. Freddie owned by Cindy McAllister joined several hounds in a park party with a dog look-alike contest for dogs and their masters.
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Freddie
Cindy McAllister
Austin
Texas
University of Texas
Judge says FBI failed to stop 1961 Klan attack on freedom riders
A federal judge ruled the FBI should have prevented the Ku Klux Klan beating of civil rights workers on a Greyhound bus in 1961. Walter Bergman and the estate of his late wife seek $2 million in damages, with next steps for a second trial to set the amount. The decision cites negligent inaction and reliance on informant information, prompting further legal timetable discussions.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
FBI
Ku Klux Klan
Walter Bergman
Grand Rapids
U.S
Richard Enslen
America
Bergman
Alabama
Freedom Riders
United States
Enslen
Anniston
Ala
Lane Bonner
Washington
Gary Thomas
Rowe
Justice
Department
Klan
Would-be hijacker threatens crew then dozes off
An Iraqi national, Said Ali, 39, threatened the Saudi Arabian Airlines crew aboard a Jidda to New York flight diverted to Boston due to weather. He pleaded innocent to interfering with the aircraft, appeared asleep when police boarded, and no injuries were reported among 145 passengers and 25 crew.
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Boston
Saudi Arabia
Said Ali
United States
Jidda
Saudi Arabian Airlines
New York
James Colburn
U.S
Colburn
Tom Chamberlain
Ali
Belaunde Declares Nationwide State of Emergency in Peru
President Fernando Belaunde Terry suspended civil rights nationwide and ordered a 60 day state of emergency to curb leftist terrorism. Authorities may seize and search without warrants and ban public gatherings as the plan tightens security.
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Lima
Peru
Fernando Belaunde Terry
Belaunde
Former senator Milton Young dies at 85 in Sun City
Milton Young longtime North Dakota Republican senator for 36 years and nicknamed Mr. Wheat died of cancer at 85 in Sun City Arizona. He retired in 1981 after a storied career and lobbied for farm product causes. The passage mentions a separate measure on smoking accommodation pending mayoral action.
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Sun City
Ariz
Milton Young
North Dakota
U.S. Senate
Young
Wheat
Polish Central Committee endorses struggle and agreement policy
WARSAW Poland the Polish Communist Party Central Committee met for the first time in over seven months and endorsed a policy of struggle and agreement to counter ongoing opposition among workers farmers intellectuals and youth. The Politburo report says enemies are weakened but still on the defensive and isolated and calls for more struggle and more agreement.
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Warsaw
Poland
Communist Party
High court ruling frees black workers from pass laws
South Africa's top court ruled the white minority government cannot deny black migrant workers permanent residence in white cities. The decision ends a core pillar of apartheid and will benefit tens of thousands of black workers by weakening the pass laws that limited blacks in white areas.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Smoking law OK'd by San Francisco board
San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved an ordinance to segregate smokers from nonsmokers in private and city workplaces or ban smoking in these spaces. The measure aims to reduce exposure to tobacco smoke in government and private facilities.
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San Francisco
Board of Supervisors
Army urinalysis test challenged in class action suit
A class-action suit filed in Fayetteville claims the Army urinalysis program for marijuana detects is inaccurate and violates constitutional rights of thousands of current and former soldiers. Army Secretary John Marsh Jr. is named as the defendant.
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Fayetteville
N.C
Army
John Marsh Jr
Gazette Wire
Supreme Court rejects seven Abscam appeals in high profile case
The Supreme Court refused to review the Abscam convictions of seven former lawmakers and officials, leaving Raymond Lederer Michael Myers John Murphy and Frank Thompson facing prison terms, with Angelo Brrichetti Louis Johanson and Howard Criden also denied appeals. Federal prosecutors can proceed with surrender deadlines.
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Congress
FBI
Abscam
Supreme Court
Raymond Lederer
Michael Myers
Pennsylvania
John Murphy
New York
Frank Thompson
New Jersey
Ed McDonald
Justice Department
Camden, N.J
Angelo Brrichetti
Philadelphia
Louis Johanson
Howard Criden
Lederer
Myers
Murphy
Thompson
Brrichetti
Criden
Johanson
God
Signs of chemical warfare or merely bee droppings
Harvard and Yale researchers say yellow rain samples from Southeast Asia contain digested pollen and may be bee excrement. They caution the samples could reflect natural fungal toxins rather than Soviet chemical or biological warfare, leaving the true cause uncertain.
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Detroit
Southeast Asia
State Department
Harvard
Yale
Thomas Seeley
Matthew Meselson
Natural Sciences
Meselson
Seeley
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Soviet Union
Afghanistan
Laos
Cambodia
Million Award for Man Wrongly Imprisoned in New York
Isidore Zimmerman, who spent 24 years in state prisons for a murder officials concede he did not commit, received 1 million dollars in compensation. He had been near execution in 1939 and sought 10 million, which was denied by Judge Joseph Modugno.
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New York Times Service
New York
Isidore Zimmerman
Zimmerman
Joseph Modugno
Modugno
State Court of Appeals
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